instantWM the window manager of instantOS.

Installation

InstantWM is preinstalled on instantOS. You can manually install the git build at your own risk by cloning the repo and then running build.sh, however you'll likely be missing a lot of other tools if you're not on instantOS. It is not recommended to use instantWM with other distributions.

git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/instantOS/instantWM.git
cd instantWM
just install

Documentation

Features

• General
  • Wayland and X11 support (Yes, really)
  • hybrid-wm: tiling and floating mode are both first-class citizens
  • Keyboard and Mouse based workflows
  • Start-menu
  • desktop bindings
  • Full multi monitor support
  • Tag system
  • Overview mode
  • Overlays
• Graphical Features
  • Animations
  • Hover indicators
  • Status markup
  • Color indicators for sticky windows, tag status etc.
• Mouse support
  • Drag windows by grabbing the title
  • Drag windows onto other tags
  • Rio-like drawing feature

This is just a quick list of some features. For a full list and explanation, please refer to the documentation.